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I have been using Drupal for a few years now. All and all I have been very impressed with things. One of the largest annoyances I’ve had in the past was having to use the web interface to add new node content. I know there are WYSIWYG modules out there that help with this and I have spent the time setting them up on all my sites for the times when I just needed to do a quick post. However, I still found myself often creating my node with a desktop HTML editor and then simply copying and pasting the HTML into the normal body textbox of a node. This was further complicated if I had any pictures as I would also need to save those, upload them to my site, and make sure that they were referenced correctly.

The other day I started looking into the Blog API module, which comes with Drupal Core, and how you can use it to post to your Drupal site from within Word 2007. This got me very excited and it did work, at least at a basic level. The biggest annoyance I had was I still had to set up some FTP stuff in order to get pictures to upload correctly. Then I found out about the Windows Live Writer BlogAPI and I got even more excited. Now I am able to write my blogs from Microsoft’s Live Writer program (which is free) and then post them with pictures straight to my Drupal site. Very cool and very easy once you get it set up. I will do a tutorial or two on it shortly so stay tuned. Until then here is a screen shot of me typing this post in Live Writer: